Whether you fancy yourself a wordsmith or want to create the blog you’ve been dreaming about, WordCamp Phoenix is the weekend for you.The three-day WordPress conference highlights website features, details, design, and covers brand strategy through workshops and talks from more than 40 speakers. Sessions build on what was learned…
Have you always wanted to take that spin class but have nightmares about getting stuck in the pedals and crash-landing into the floor?The Madison Improvement Club, the Arcadia neighborhood’s health club and lunch spot, offers monthly No Frills, Still Fun courses for those interested in spinning or doing “downward dog”…
Apparently Alexander Graham Bell, Richard Branson, and actor Billy Bob Thorton all have one thing in common: purportedly, each suffers from dyslexia. Dyslexia is a learning defieciency that makes reading comprehension and fluency difficult and has two forms, acquired and developmental. Those with dyslexia – potentially as many as a…
It’s not quite Miss America — or even Miss USA — but it still comes with a title, a scholarship and, of course, bragging rights.The Miss Cave Creek and Miss Phoenix pageant takes place this weekend, pitting four teen contestants (ages 13 to 17) and eight “miss” contestants (ages 17…
Few things we’d wait thirty days for. Cheese Puff Day at Four Peaks is one of them.The moniker “cheese puff” conjures up notions of brightly colored packaging and orange-stained fingers, but that imagery would be misplaced. Nor are these garden-variety mozzarella sticks, the standbys of sports bars. Alas, these six…
Holding more than 40 statewide events, the weeks leading up to the battle between Baylor University and University of Central Florida Wednesday, January 1, at the 43rd annual Tostitos Fiesta Bowl are the ultimate pre-game. There are the known highlights, of course. The anticipated and always colorful Fiesta Bowl Parade…
Their story began after a French street clown, Napoline Zoppe, fell in love with a ballerina — a compelling entertainer in her own right — while wandering around Budapest. The love was forbidden, like all good legends, and so, naturally, they fled to Italy in order to be together. But…
The big game between the Central Florida Knights and the Bears of Baylor University may not be until the New Year, but the celebrations start early — and not just for football lovers.The 16th Annual Fiesta Bowl Art Walk helps usher in the party with “Art Walk the Line,” a…
Did the holiday season sneak up on you, too? Unlike organized gift-givers, we’re less likely to start planning for Hanukkah immediately after Yom Kippur, and prone to cramming all of our Christmas purchases into Christmas Eve. Fear not, fellow shoppers. Instead of succumbing to the annual bout of anxiety, we’ve…
Remember when a harmless game of spin the bottle progressed into the titillating yet terrifying seven minutes in heaven? Remember the paralyzing fear, the awkward seven minutes that followed, crammed in a too-tiny closet?Or perhaps you were one of the fortunate souls who escaped their formative years without enduring it.Either…
A brief history lesson, courtesy of the Irish (sort of).During the reign of the Julian calendar — until its replacement by the Gregorian calendar in 1582 — Christmas fell on December 21. These days, the twenty-first represents winter solstice, when the sun is at the lowest point above the horizon…
A new year means new things. New opportunities, new perspectives and most important — or at least tangible — of all, a new calendar on which to track them. Chandler letterpress studio Letterpress Central has created a mockup for a zombie-themed 2014. The 12-page calendar features images of the walking…
Downtown becomes a destination art haven for the second annual Phoenix Festival of the Arts, a weekend of creatives and culture sponsored by the Phoenix Center for the Arts and Arizona Humanities. The three-day festival includes the Mayor’s Arts Awards, presented by Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to the Valley’s prominent…
The holidays snuck up on us, too. Lines are long, patience short, and we’re still struggling to find perfect presents. Amid the hustle and bustle, Urban Restoration offers another chance to find that unique gift for both special and hard-to-shop-for someones. Following Black Friday’s Vintage Market at CityScape, the local…
‘Tis the season for giving and charity, and this Sunday, December 8, the community in the Calle 16 district is doing its part…
It’s been a hell of a year, people, so we understand if you’ve conveniently forgotten about the marathon that is holiday shopping. Luckily, Get Your PHX presents the perfect marriage of airing grievances and last minute gift giving at the Fourth Annual Phoestivus Market.This year’s market features more than 100…
Year after year we promise we’ll make our own gifts, trying our hand at the Etsy-worthy goodies we have on our Pinterest boards. “We’ll learn to sew!” we think. “We can carve wood!”Every year we fall short. The good news is Phoenix is home to a plethora of creative types…
To call Andrew Dice Clay’s comedic career long and storied would be an understatement. Since first appearing on a Rodney Dangerfield special in the late 1980s, Clay’s leather-jacket-wearing, chain-smoking mug has become synonymous with the kind of raunchy comedy that dominated the scene in the 1990s. He became the first…
Don’t call it a comeback — at least, not to his face. Instead, comedian Andrew Dice Clay refers to 2013 as his year of resurgence, due largely to an uncharacteristically sympathetic role in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine and the release of Andrew Dice Clay: Indestructible, his first stand-up special in…
Since the official announcement earlier this year, central Phoenix has been buzzing about a new Changing Hands Bookstore. The second location would bring the Valley’s favorite indie bookseller to more of the masses and breathe new life into the otherwise stagnant area of Camelback Road and Third Avenue. Located in…
It happened, as these things have a tendency to, in the dead of night. Exactly a week before the 7 p.m. commemoration on Wednesday, November 20, construction crews took to Seventh Avenue and Indian School Road, just yards north of the intersection, and secured a steel structure meant to give…
Madeleine Albright has been called many names. Among them: cold-blooded, cruel, and snakelike.The story goes that the former United Nations Ambassador and first female Secretary of State was christened an “unparalleled serpent” by the Iraqi press after comments about Sadaam Hussein’s aversion to complying with UN inspections. (The first time…
